Today started with an early morning trip to WalMart to pick up a flat of water and some juice to replenish our supply. We will use refillable water bottles in the park; we didn’t use those on the drive because they don’t fit in any of the cup holders. After our resupply stop at WalMart it was back on the road to the Belton Chalet , which is just outside of the west Glacier NP entrance. The drive started out very clouded over and stayed that way for about 75-percent of the last 25-percent of the drive had rain. We stopped twice on our 4 hour drive, once at a gas station about half way in and then again at Marias Pass which is a two-for-one stop because there is also a monument to Theadore Roosevelt as well as signs about the pass. The monument, which is an obelisk, was constructed in 1931 in honor of the president who made forest conservation a national policy. From there it was on to the hotel. We arrived too early to ch...
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